Domino Interface

When The Human Community Saved the World - MWLUG 2014 - Part I Last year at MWLUG 2013 through the great efforts of Sam Bridegroom from Bridegroom Technologies, we able to have Iraq veteran and community spokesman Josh Bleill from the Indianapolis Colts to be our Opening General Session Guest Speaker. This year was a challenge.  How can we duplicate the incredible presentation that Josh did in MWLUG 2013 and deliver to our ICS community similar expectations.  We wanted to really capture the essence of the MWLUG 2014 theme, "Connecting the Human Community" and what a community, a collection of us can do together and for each other. We all go through hard times and challenges in our lives.  And our ICS community members are going through these challenges professionally and sometimes personally.  It is our community of colleagues and friends that helps us through these challenges. Our Greatest Generation endured the hardship of the...

Too often in our technology focused world we become no more than bits of data.  We become less and less social and feel lost within our technology. Communities for Generation X, Y is all about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media.  However, a community in the past was all about people and individuals.  Technology is just a vehicle to connect individuals, no different than hundreds if not thousands of year ago when stories and our history was told by the bonfire.  Our goal each year at MWLUG is to bring everyone together in person to share our knowledge and experience so that we can grow our community as people have done in the past. Only through the test of time, will we know the impact of our ICS community in the fabric of technology.  However, there was one amazing community of men and women despite all odds save our world as we know it. Over 70 years ago, the human race was tested to its greatest extend and our freedom, our democracy that ...

The session schedule for MWLUG 2014 is now online at the main mwlug.com site. I am looking forward to MWLUG 2014.  We have a lot of great and unique sessions that you will not find elsewhere in the ICS community.  http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2014.nsf/Schedule.xsp . So register as soon as you can, the special discount for the hotel rooms will be expiring in a couple of weeks. http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2014.nsf/Register.xsp

Transforming Domino into a Social Collaboration Platform, Part 1 - Where Do We Begin? Transforming Domino into a Social Collaboration Platform, Part 2A - Experimentation Transforming Domino into a Social Collaboration Platform, Part 2B - Experimentation So now that we had all the tools and capabilities to create our social collaboration tool, what should be build? We wanted to build a SMB solution similar to IBM Connections or Yammer, a small business solution that utilized the power of enterprise technology. So we were all set with our mighty tools in hand and created our new social collaboration solution.  Like all application development, how a designer/developer thinks is not how users thinks. We developed our first version in early 2013 and users shot it down!!! How there they? But the true set in.  From our discussions with our clients and watching how they worked, they were not interested in a general social collaboration tool, but...

Transforming Domino into a Social Collaboration Platform, Part 1 - Where Do We Begin? Transforming Domino into a Social Collaboration Platform, Part 2A - Experimentation This is the second part of our experimentation portion of the series. In Part 2A, I talked about the different experiments that we did for creating web pages for our social collaboration applications and the design of the back-end database.  In part 2B, I will be talking about the application structure and business process and workflow management that you need in order to have a successful social collaboration tool.  As I mentioned before, there were four areas of technical challenges that we had to overcome. Web Interface Generation Database Infrastructure Application Structure Business Process and Workflow Management In this blog we will cover the last two. Application Structure Traditionally with Domino applications, an application consist of one or mo...

http://dominointerface.blogspot.com/2014/05/transforming-domino-into-social.html In my last blog, I described our desire to a create a community-based social collaboration platform designed to meet the needs of small and medium-sized organization.  This post is the geeky part of this series. Only being naïve would one have taken on this journey. So the great experimentation began. So we wanted to transform Domino into a social collaboration platform.  But what did that mean in the technical sense. Since data is fluid and mostly unstructured, we needed the entire infrastructure to be fluid and that was the challenge.  The challenges create many forks in the road of which many were dead ends. There was four areas of technical challenges that we had to overcome. Web Interface Generation Database Infrastructure Application Structure Business Process and Workflow Management Web Page and Interface Though XPages technically separates...

We will be have two great presentations at GRANITE next week at the IBM Center on Monday, October 17, 2011.  If you are in the Chicagoland area, please join us.  If you can not make it in person, we will be doing a Live Webcast of the sessions.  If you would like to register for the Webcast go to: http://bit.ly/GraniteUG2011 GRANITE Meeting - October 17th, 2011 Agenda and Webcast Registration The October 17th GRANITE meeting will be an historic first for GRANITE. For the first time, the GRANITE meeting will be webcast live to other Lotus User Group throughout the United States. For this meeting, we will be presenting extended versions of two sessions were presented at MWLUG 2011 in Milwaukee, WI. in addition to other presentations and discussions. If attendees cannot attend in person, please register for the live webcast. 8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration, Breakfast, Refreshments & Networking at IBM Center for on-site attendees 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Presentation: "What's New Wi...

It is one week until the start MWLUG Conference 2011 so make sure you register. Here are the top ten reasons why your should be attending MWLUG 2011. For your $35 donation you get: - 40 Technical and Social Business Sessions - Miller-Coors Brewery Tour and Beer and Beer - Wednesday Evening Reception with Food and Drinks - Thursday Evening MWLUG Private Party at Comedy Sportz Club with Dinner, Drinks, and Show - 50% off one IBM Certification Test - Open Session with David Cohen from LinkedIn - Breakfast and Lunch (buffet lunches not box lunches) for two days - Free XPages Workshop - Meeting Ed Brill - And see me make a fool of myself on stage

The IBM Watson-Jeopardy project was a big event for IBM this year and it demonstrated some of the amazing capabilities that IBM technology has to offer. David Via, MWLUG 2011 opening session IBM speaker, will be talking about IBM's vision in Social Business and Collaboration. As part of his presentation, he will discuss how social media played a role in the development of IBM Watson, what tools were used and how. So join us for MWLUG 2011 in Milwaukee, WI next week and learn more about this amazing feat. http://mwlug.com

The presentation sessions for MWLUG 2011 is now online on the MWLUG 2011 Web site. Again we have an incredible line up of speakers and sessions. If you want to learn to convert an Notes applications to XPages or learn about advanced XPages techniques, MWLUG 2011 is the conference you need to come. No additional cost. If you are interested in Mobility, this is the conference for you. This year in addition to many Administration and Application Development sessions, we have a special focus on real business cases and the use of Social Media to drive your business. We will be presenting sessions on the use of Social Media and Marketing from the Retail and Healthcare industry. These sessions will be from customer case studies. So bring along your business counterpart within your company. See everyone at MWLUG 2011. http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2011.nsf/uxpages/agenda.uxp?openDocument&tab=tab4

The theme of MWLUG 2011 is "Expand Your Community Through Social Collaboration". As part of that we now have the MWLUG Youtube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/mwlug So you if you have attended MWLUG in the past or are planning to attend this year, let us know what you liked about MWLUG and what you would like to see us do in August in Milwaukee.